Chandigarh/Muktsar, Dec 10
Gurmeet Singh Khudian, son of former MP late Jagdev Singh Khudian, was on the list of 30 candidates released by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today for the 2022 Assembly elections. Gurmeet has been fielded from SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal’s home turf Lambi.
The list also included IGP Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, who was associated with the SIT probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case and had resigned. He will contest from Amritsar (North). This is AAP’s second list; the first one released earlier consisted of 10 sitting MLAs.
Gurmeet, 59, served as the District Congress Committee president before joining AAP in July. The 94-year-old Badal has won five times in a row from Lambi. The SAD is yet to announce the candidate from the constituency this time. Though SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has already said he would like his father contests the election, the elderly Badal has not opened his cards. In 2017, he had, however, said that it was his last election.
“If the elderly Badal contests the election, he will be the oldest candidate in the poll fray,” political observers said.
A senior SAD leader from Lambi said: “If Badal sahib’s health allows, he will contest the election. However, the decision has to be taken by the party leadership.” He further said for the past few days, the former CM was touring the constituency and meeting public at his residence as well.
Khudian said he was happy the AAP reposed faith in him. “Our national convener-cum-Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will soon come to hold a rally in Lambi,” he said. — TNS
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